Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew was written to compliment Wonder-Book and Tanglewood Tales written by Hawthorne. From the preface, It was not strange that Pan himself sometimes brought home a shepherd's stray lamb. It was not strange, if one broke the branches of a tree, that some fair life within wept at the hurt. Even now, the Earth is glad with us in springtime, and we grieve for her when the leaves go. But in the old days there was a closer union, clearer speech between men and all other creatures, Earth and the stars ...
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Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew was written to compliment Wonder-Book and Tanglewood Tales written by Hawthorne. From the preface, It was not strange that Pan himself sometimes brought home a shepherd's stray lamb. It was not strange, if one broke the branches of a tree, that some fair life within wept at the hurt. Even now, the Earth is glad with us in springtime, and we grieve for her when the leaves go. But in the old days there was a closer union, clearer speech between men and all other creatures, Earth and the stars about her. Out of the life that they lived together, there have come down to us these wonderful tales; and, whether they be told well or ill, they are too good to be forgotten. Stories included are, The Wood Folk, The Judgment of Midas, Prometheus, The Deluge, Orpheus and Eurydice, Icarus and Deadalus, Phaethon, Niobe, Admetus and the Shepherd, Alcestis, Apollos Sister, The Calydonian Hunt, Atlantas Race, Arachne, Pyramus and Thiebe, Pygmalion and Galatea, Oedipus, Cupid and Psyche, Stories of the Trojan War, The House of Agamemnon, and The Adventures of Odysseus.
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